London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
169
Public Health Department,
-December 31st, 1904To
the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,—
I beg to lay before you my fifteenth Annual Summary of the Sanitary work carried out in my Division during the year ending 31st December, 1904, as follows: —
| Inspections on complaints of nuisances | 986 |
| Do. on notifications of infectious diseases | 296 |
| Do. on house-to-house visitation | 232 |
| Do. Canal Boats | 25 |
| Re-Inspections | 2,720 |
| Making a total of | 4,259 visits |
Details and results of such inspections from time to time have
been entered in the book kept for that purpose, as prescribed by
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Of the total number (1,514 houses and other premises) of primary
inspections made, I found that 37.9 per cent of the premises thus
inspected various works of sanitary amendment were needed to
be carried out—requiring the service of 575 written intimations, 393
statutory, and 63 final notices. In many of these cases on the
service of the usual written intimations, which in all cases precedes
the service of statutory notices, the required works were executed
by the respective persons liable, but in 2 cases it was found
necessary to have recourse to legal proceedings, necessitating
attendances at the police-court to ensure enforcement.
| Walls and ceilings of houses cleaned | throughout | 27 |
| partially . | 121 | |
| Drains opened and cleansed | 119 | |
| Defective drains repaired | 80 | |
| Inlets to drains properly trapped | 14 | |